Results 81-100 of 1,057 for speaker:Tom Clonan
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: To come back to first principles, because there is a context here, we are in crisis-----
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: -----with regard to disability rights. We are outliers in the European Union. There are suboptimal outcomes for disabled citizens like my son every day all across the State. The level of distress and unmet need is phenomenal. The NDA says it would not really have a view on whether these citizens should have a legal right, which is what sets us apart from every other European Union...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: How could Dr. Hartney not have that information?
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: She has been in the post for nine years.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: I put it to Dr. Hartney, respectfully, that the only reason we get an assessment of need is because there is a legal entitlement to it. That is the only reason. The reason we do not get the services and supports is we have no legal entitlement to them.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach. The witnesses are all very welcome. I congratulate the Chief of Staff on his recent appointment. I see Colonel Owen McNally is also here. He is my former comhairleoir and I assure him that despite the obvious deterioration in age and eyesight my shoes are still polished and I have water in my water bottle still. We convened this evening to...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: There is great interest in this meeting and I have many queries coming in. If the Chair will permit me, I will ask a brief question from a listener, a retired senior officer and former colleague. He wants to know the rationale that precludes members of the Naval Service and Air Corps from applying for the new assistant chief of staff role. I suspect he was in the Naval Service because he...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: Is it open to applications?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: Is there a possibility it will be open to all three services?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses and apologise for putting them on the spot. I know it was outside of the remit.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: I welcome our guests and thank them for coming in. I have a couple of conflicts of interest I have to declare. First, I served and soldiered with Declan Power in a couple of different guises. I think he has been one of the most powerful voices for the recognition of the service of our troops in the Congo. I think he has done outstanding public service in this regard. I do not think he...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: The challenge I have is not to get emotional in this discussion. Before I ask questions, I should say there is nothing personal in this. I know that each and every person here is a good person who is trying to do their best but collectively, ladies and gentlemen, something has gone terribly wrong. It is a scandal of international dimensions. This report, which CHI has not published, is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: No. Responsibility.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: So what will Ms Nugent do? How will she discharge that responsibility? Will she just carry on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: Again, as with the report, I never hear the word "children" or the word "parents". I hear measurements, quantitative statistics and this, that and the other. Moving on to the other questions, who is doing CHI's PR?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: How much is CHI paying Q4?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: Will CHI send that to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: CHI is getting value for money from the rogue consultant narrative. I am very disappointed to hear that narrative. This is a systemic and systematic failure at board and executive level, and CHI is not fit for purpose. I am very alarmed, given what we know, that it is purported that the transition into CHI can be trusted. I think that will be a major risk event and I am glad to see that...